Grungy Nolita speakeasy The Randolph (349 Broome Street) had somehow evaded our booze-dar the past few years it has been open so we were happily surprised to learn that it has one of the better happy hours in town - half price on everything until 9pm. While we weren't blown away by the cocktails - shockingly $14 per, a $1 more than Death & Co. - they were quite serviceable at happy hour prices. It's not a go to spot the way Death & Co is, but if you need an early watering hole, you can do worse.
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Avenue A newbie Destination Bar (211 Avenue A) has a great happy hour that's worth checking out if you are in the area. All drinks are 1/2 price from 4pm until 8pm every day. Yes, that includes Jello shots.
It had to happen - one of the high end fancy cocktail joints has broken down and done a happy hour. Ella Lounge (9 Avenue A) has quite the special going - half-price off everything from 6pm to 10pm. Considering cocktails are regularly $12, that's a great deal. Try the Clark Gable, our favorite from an early visit.
Here's a happy hour for all you midtowners - Opal Bar (251 East 52nd Street) has a different deal every night of the week. Our favorite day might very well be Tuesday since it's 2 for 1 drinks from 5pm to 10pm. Wednesday is a close second, but only because it's 80s night. The complete list of specials is on their website.Opal Bar
251 East 52nd Street
OpalBar.com
Nightly Happy Hour Specials
Roman import Sora Lella (300 Spring Street) has started doing L'ora dell'Aperitivo, a Milan-style happy hour with complimentary snacks at the bar. Not coincidentally, the bartender Tommaso hails from Italy's most fashionable city and crafts some tasty classic and modern cocktails.
During their happy hour - every day from 5pm - 7:30pm - they'll serve items from the new bar menu for free. We're not talking nuts and popcorn either but real food - meatballs, bruschetta, zucchini fries, potato croquettes and more. Plus drink specials including $10 cocktails (regularly $13 - $14), $8 glasses of wine and $5 Peronis. The food pairs real well with the cocktails as you can see below...
Sora Lella
300 Spring Street, 212-366-4749
Happy Hour: Daily 5pm - 7:30pm
Complimentary food and drink specials
During their happy hour - every day from 5pm - 7:30pm - they'll serve items from the new bar menu for free. We're not talking nuts and popcorn either but real food - meatballs, bruschetta, zucchini fries, potato croquettes and more. Plus drink specials including $10 cocktails (regularly $13 - $14), $8 glasses of wine and $5 Peronis. The food pairs real well with the cocktails as you can see below...
Sora Lella
300 Spring Street, 212-366-4749
Happy Hour: Daily 5pm - 7:30pm
Complimentary food and drink specials
Barrow Street Ale House (15 Barrow Street, website) is your pretty standard issue bar, but it does have a great happy hour with $3 drafts from 11am to 7pm (Mon - Fri). In addition, from 7pm on there are different drink specials depending on the night. Monday is $3 Sam Adams and 40 cent wings. But Tuesday night is our favorite special - all drafts remain $3 all night long. Sort of makes up for the bouncer (!) carding people at the door and the slightly creepy downstairs men's room.
That didn't take too long - new restaurant Nios, which replaced District at the Muse Hotel, has started a happy hour. Domestic beer is $3, while $5 gets you a specialty cocktail, well drink or a glass of wine. Best thing about it is you can pop in after the theater for a late night drink.
Nios
130 W. 46th Street
Happy Hour: Daily 4pm - 6pm, 9pm - 11pm
Nios
130 W. 46th Street
Happy Hour: Daily 4pm - 6pm, 9pm - 11pm
For those of you looking to get an early start on boozing, Savoy Restaurant (70 Prince Street) has started a happy hour that begins at the dignified hour of 3pm weekdays! Enjoy bites at the bar - shrimp fritters ($6) and deviled eggs ($4) - to go along with $6 rosé and $8 ginger mint juleps.
Savoy Restaurant
Happy Hour: Monday - Friday 3pm - 7pm, Sat & Sun 4pm - 7pm
Savoy Restaurant
Happy Hour: Monday - Friday 3pm - 7pm, Sat & Sun 4pm - 7pm
Feeling carnivorous? How about a side of meat with your happy hour? Blaue Gans (139 Duane Street) has an "after work" special designed to fill you up. Drop by the bar and get a Bitburger beer for $4 or a sausage platter for $16 from 4pm to 7pm.Blaue Gans
139 Duane Street
Happy Hour Daily 4pm - 7pm
Bouley is jumping on the cut-price deals with a happy hour at Upstairs at Bouley (130 West Broadway). Drinks are half price Monday to Friday from 5pm to 7pm.
Good pizza and beer are a natural combination. Relative newbie Roberta's in Brooklyn (261 Moore Street) ups the anted with a six hour long happy hour Monday to Friday (Noon - 6pm). If you buy a pint, you'll get the second one for $3. The Stegmaier Amber (Lion Brewery, Wilkes Barre, PA) pairs well with creative pizzas like the Good Girl (kale, tallegio, Berkshire pork sausage) and Specken Wolf (speck, mushrooms, oregano, onion, mozzarella). Other options include a hoppy Recessionator from Brooklyn brewmeisters Kelso and the ubiquitous Blue Point and Six Point. Canned beer, the bane of our existence, is represented with six entries, but thankfully does not include the odious PBR.
Roberta's
Happy Hour Mon - Fri 12pm - 6pm, Draft beer only, buy one, second one $3
Roberta's
Happy Hour Mon - Fri 12pm - 6pm, Draft beer only, buy one, second one $3
We noticed an odd sight outside FiDi's Gild Hall, a fancy Thompson Hotel venture complete with an upscale celeb chef resto - a whiteboard promoting happy hour. The joint, fancifully named the Libertine, opened with typical fanfare due to the name of its chef Todd English - English does English! - but failed to thrill both critics and diners.The beer-heavy ($4 Stellas, $5 Draughts) happy hour skews heavily towards guys with an appetite for oysters. The $1 - 1.50 oysters are a nice touch, but hey, how about something liquid for the ladies?
Unlike Gild Hall, the trendy Thompson production, and Libertine, which was supposed to evoke London clubhouses circa 1970s (monied? plush?), the whiteboard sign is decidedly downscale and uninviting. Frankly, it looks to us like it was pulled from a back office (we hope the conference rooms' boards are cleaner than this!).
Dear Management, this is the most passive-aggressive approach to promoting happy hour we've ever seen. Are you sure you want anyone coming in?
The Libertine
15 Gold Street
Happy Hour: 5pm - 7pm
Thursday means all night happiness at West Soho lounge The Anchor. $20 will buy you all you can drink. TGIT!
The Anchor
310 Spring Street (at Greenwich Street)
The Anchor
310 Spring Street (at Greenwich Street)
With the market down yet again and the coldest part of the season upon us, we have the perfect Happy Hour to chase away the winter blues - 2 for 1 until 10pm at Boxcar Lounge (until 8pm on weekends). That's right, 10pm!
We know it's cold out but Avenue B isn't that far.
Boxcar Lounge
168 Avenue B
Happy Hour daily - 2 for 1, Monday - Thursday until 10pm, Friday - Sunday until 8pm
We know it's cold out but Avenue B isn't that far.
Boxcar Lounge
168 Avenue B
Happy Hour daily - 2 for 1, Monday - Thursday until 10pm, Friday - Sunday until 8pm
There are straightforward bar names - Irish surnames, addresses, etc. - and then there the more creative ones, like The Stumble Inn. Way up on the Upper East Side, it is a hike for many but worth it if you are a sports nut - 17 HDTVs! - or if you like a generous happy hour.
Monday is a great day as there is both half-off the entire bar until 7pm and later beer specials, including $1 drafts, $8 pitchers and $4 Sam Light & Stella bottles. There may be no football these cold Monday nights but that shouldn't stop you from stumbling in.
The Stumble Inn
1454 2nd Ave (at 76th Street)
Happy Hour - half off everything, 11:30am - 7pm Mon - Sat, additional specials Mon & Tues eves
Monday is a great day as there is both half-off the entire bar until 7pm and later beer specials, including $1 drafts, $8 pitchers and $4 Sam Light & Stella bottles. There may be no football these cold Monday nights but that shouldn't stop you from stumbling in.
The Stumble Inn
1454 2nd Ave (at 76th Street)
Happy Hour - half off everything, 11:30am - 7pm Mon - Sat, additional specials Mon & Tues eves
If you're into sake, we have a non happy hour for you at En Japanese Brasserie. In its place is an "early evening sake tasting" in the shochu bar. You can try 3 sakes (from a selection f 6) for $18 and get some yasai chips to munch on. The sakes are all junmai or ginjo, but each have their merits - including a draft sake, a sake made with heirloom rice and one rarely seen outside its region of origin.En Japanese Brasserie
435 Hudson Street, 212-647-9196
Early Evening Sake Tasting 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Highly regarded Chef Richard Farnabe's (Picholine, Jean Georges) foray into Curry Hill is a Mediterranean tapas restaurant called Prespa. The restaurant has a weekday happy hour featuring 50% off wine by the glass and cocktails as well as free hors d'oeuvres at the bar.Prespa
184 Lexington Ave (bet 31 & 32nd), 212-810-4335
Happy Hour 4:30pm - 6:30pm and 10pm - 11pm (Monday - Friday)
Is it possible you could resist a burger happy hour? We didn't think so. Burger joint Stand has a pair of happy hours as evidenced by their signage (right).
Between 3pm - 5pm, buy one burger and get a second burger free. Then from 5pm - 7pm, get a free beer with any burger. Even better, their exceptional list of draft beers is region-centric and only $5 per glass/ $20 per pitcher. We're partial to the only Long Island beer - Blue Point Toasted Lager.
Stand
24 East 12th Street
Buy 1 get 1 free burgers 3 - 5pm, Free beer with burger
5 - 7pm (Both daily)
With the DOW headed down today, we give you a way to improve your short term options - happy hour at Trinity Place. This cool joint in a former bank vault offers all drinks for $3 from 3:30 - 5pm whenever the market closes "in the red".
Regardless of your fortunes (or lack thereof), they also have a regular happy hour from 4pm - 6pm with $4 draft beers every day. Weds is Cosmo night ($6) and Thursday is just plain nuts with $6 Stoli-O bombs and Jaeger bombs plus $7 Champagne Charlies. Friday is Jaegar bombs and $7 Sangria all day. Weekends gets you all the regular happy hour offerings.
Trinity Place
115 Broadway, enter on Cedar Street, 212-964-0939
Happy Hour daily 4pm - 6pm, (additional specials when the market closes down from 3:30 - 5pm)
Regardless of your fortunes (or lack thereof), they also have a regular happy hour from 4pm - 6pm with $4 draft beers every day. Weds is Cosmo night ($6) and Thursday is just plain nuts with $6 Stoli-O bombs and Jaeger bombs plus $7 Champagne Charlies. Friday is Jaegar bombs and $7 Sangria all day. Weekends gets you all the regular happy hour offerings.
Trinity Place
115 Broadway, enter on Cedar Street, 212-964-0939
Happy Hour daily 4pm - 6pm, (additional specials when the market closes down from 3:30 - 5pm)
Tonight is Tuesday and that means a nighttime deal at the bar at Hill Country - all you can drink from 9pm to Midnight for $30 (any beer or cocktails on their list under $9).
Hill Country
30 W. 26th Street
Tuesday Night All You Can Drink Happy Hour 9pm - 12am
Hill Country
30 W. 26th Street
Tuesday Night All You Can Drink Happy Hour 9pm - 12am
